Main Menu Panel

[McBainUK]

I want to add a panel on the main menu for my GMail plug-in but don't know the best way to do it and can't find any examples. Ideally I would like to reuse the CheckEmail plug-in's skin as this would mean skins would already have the required elements.

Any suggestions?

[McBainUK]

OK, I've figured out the IInfoPanel interface but how do I get a SkinHelper object to work from a panel's skin file?

[sub]

What do you mean exactly? You can just create an instance of the skin helper object and use it just like you would in any plugin.

[McBainUK]

Code:

skinHelper = new SkinHelper(MyPlugInSkinSubDirectoryName, "skin.xml");

This code gets a skin file for the plug-in (gbpvr\skin\Blue\Gmail\skin.xml), but I would also like access to the skin file for the panel (gbpvr\skin\Community\panels\CheckEmail.xml)

[sub]

skinHelper = new SkinHelper("panels", "CheckEmail.xml");

[McBainUK]

Thanks sub, easy when you know how...